[net-gold] COUNTRIES: HAITI : DISASTERES: EARTHQUAKES: Security and Health are Haiti's Priorities
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- Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 18:06:11 -0500 (EST)
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COUNTRIES: HAITI :
DISASTERES: EARTHQUAKES:
Security and Health are Haiti's Priorities
Security and Health are Haiti's Priorities
Troops and aid workers arriving in Port-au-Prince must rebuild
infrastructure and create safe areas
Esther Addley and John Vidal
Guardian.co.uk
Friday 15 January 2010 20.51 GMT
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/15/security-health-haiti-priority>
Significant amounts of food, water and medical supplies are at last
arriving in Haiti, along with thousands of American troops to support UN
peacekeepers in maintaining order as aid is distributed. Esther Addley and
John Vidal examine the ongoing needs of the many thousands affected by the
quake, and the progress of the aid effort.
Security
Fears have arisen over a dangerous power vacuum in the aftermath of the
disaster. With food and medical supplies delayed, there were widespread
reports of mounting desperation and looting. Footage from the US
broadcaster CBS showed young men roaming the streets of Port-au-Prince
armed with machetes and hunting for food.
"I fear we're all aware that the situation is getting more tense as the
poorest people who need so much are waiting for deliveries," said David
Wimhurst, spokesman for the Brazilian-led UN peacekeeping mission. "They
want us to provide them with help, which is, of course, what we want to
do," he said. But people see UN vehicles patrolling the streets to
maintain calm and not delivering aid, and "they're slowly getting more
angry and impatient".
Elizabeth Byrs, the UN humanitarian spokeswoman, said: "People who have
not been eating or drinking for almost 50 hours and are already in a very
poor situation, if they see a truck with something ... or if they see a
supermarket which has collapsed, they just rush to get something to eat."
The country's 800-strong police force "are not visible at all", said
Wimhurst, and aid convoys have been warned to travel only with security
escorts. The situation is exacerbated by more than 4,500 criminals who
fled from two prisons destroyed in the city.
<snip>
Food and shelter
At least 300,000 people are homeless in Port-au-Prince, according to the
UN, with more than half the buildings destroyed in some areas. As
aftershocks continuedtoday, many more chose to sleep outside, lying on
pallets and draping themselves with plastic bags.
Workers from the British agency ShelterBox, which provides emergency tents
and tarpaulins, said the destruction was so severe, "there is no more
Haiti".
These were already desperately poor people in 2008, 60% of Haitians said
there were times when they could not afford to eat. The Red Cross
estimates 3m people will now need food aid.
"We need food. The people are suffering. My neighbours and friends are
suffering," Sylvain Angerlotte, 22, told the Associated Press. "We don't
have money. We have nothing to eat. We need pure water."
Where water has arrived, according to one aid worker, people had been
"almost fighting" over it; the American Red Cross said there was no way
for many people to get provisions other than looting.
<snip>
Healthcare
With at least eight hospitals damaged or destroyed, and a number of
injured that few want to guess at, those medical facilities that do exist
are hugely crowded, say aid agencies.
The mission head for Mecins Sans Fronties said the most pressing issue for
medical staff is the very large number of people with open fractures
requiring urgent surgery.
Stefano Zannini said thousands of people with broken bones and lacerations
were awaiting immediate treatment at makeshift MSF tent clinics in the
city 2,000 people had been treated so far. "It is a race against time
because infected wounds need rapid interventions.
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